Press Releases / UK

International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has acted for Halite Energy Group in the successful making of “The Preesall Underground Gas Storage Facility Order 2015”, which grants development consent for an underground gas storage facility in Preesall, Lancashire. The Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change made the order on 17 July 2015, […]

International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has today (20 July 2015) announced the appointment of Jonathan Morris as its new Corporate Departmental Managing Partner (DMP). Jonathan has been at the firm for nearly 25 years, initially joining Paisner & Co in 1990 before the merger in 2001 which formed BLP. The firm’s Corporate team […]

International law firm, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), has acted for Lloyds Bank plc and M&G Investments as the senior lenders on the £160m refinancing of a portfolio of Thistle hotels owned by Topland on 3 July of this year. The portfolio comprises six hotels, five of which are based in central London (the Bloomsbury Park […]

International law firm, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), is advising the FTSE250 listed Playtech group (Playtech) on its proposed $105m acquisition of Ava Trade (Ava), an online B2C CFDs broker with financial services regulatory licences in the EU (Ireland), Japan, Australia and the BVI. This follows on from Playtech’s acquisition of TradeFX earlier this year and […]

International law firm, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), has acted for US REIT, Ventas Inc, on its £55m acquisition of five care homes in the London region from Churchgate Estates Limited. The portfolio has been simultaneously let to operator, Canford Healthcare Limited, on 25 year leases at an annual rent of £3.7m. This is the second […]

International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has advised Prime Investors Capital Limited in relation to the acquisition of the long leasehold of Admiralty Arch from the UK Government, which completed ahead of schedule on 17 June. BLP acted on all UK aspects of the transaction including the equity and debt funding and the negotiations […]

International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has advised new client Adgorithms on its US$125m initial public offering (IPO) on AIM which completed today. Adgorithms, whose operations are based in Israel, has developed artificial intelligence based algorithmic technology which it is deploying in the high growth online advertising market. The transaction is being led by […]

International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has today (11 June 2015) announced the appointments of Katherine Mulhern and Bobby Schrader as partners into its Corporate Finance practice group. Their appointment brings the total number of Corporate Finance partners to 27 across all offices. The appointments of Katherine and Bobby provide BLP with a focused […]

International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has acted for the long term owners of The Stage, Shoreditch, who have secured the development of a new £750m GDV mixed-use scheme. The site is less than five minutes’ walk from Liverpool Street station, and incorporates the remains of Shakespeare’s 16th century Curtain Theatre, where Romeo and […]

International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has today (21 May 2015) announced the appointment of Nathan Willmott as the new Departmental Managing Partner (DMP) of its Litigation and Dispute Resolution (LDR) team. Nathan will replace Jonathan Sacher, who will lead BLP’s Insurance Sector Group, on 1 June 2015. Nathan, who joined BLP in 2007, […]